The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this handbook's coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practice local and...

section I. Local and regional development in a global context -- section II. Defining the principles and values of local and regional development -- section III. Concepts and theories of local and regional development -- section IV. Government and governance -- section V. Local and regional...

TOMANEY J., PIKE A. and CORNFORD J. (1999) Plant closure and the local economy: the case of Swan Hunter on Tyneside, Reg. Studies 33, 401-411. This paper seeks to describe and account for the closure of a Tyneside shipyard and to illuminate the wider issues concerning plant closure and the local...

From a position of relative isolation, trade unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that...

Discussions of local and regional development have recently broadened from a preoccupation with growth to one which captures the notion of resilience. This article makes two main contributions to these debates. First, it critiques static equilibrium-based notions of resilience and instead...

D<sc>awley</sc> S., M<sc>arshall</sc> N., P<sc>ike</sc> A., P<sc>ollard</sc> J. and T<sc>omaney</sc> J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high-profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. An...

This paper draws upon territorial and relational approaches as well as work on the economics and politics of devolution to argue that a geographically sensitive political economy of the 'qualitative state' can interpret the roles, structures, strategies and practices of states in attempting to...